Religion: On the Lord's Table

Those who decorate an altar with flowers are particularly privileged,
and in a special sense cooperators with Him. For the flowers are His
own; and all who come into His House feel so. The altar vases thus
represent no casual "decoration." They are a constant work of art,
expressing the consecrated thought of the artist creating perpetual
beauty in the worship of God.

Thus last week in The Churchman (Episcopal) wrote Rev. Dr. Donald
Bradshaw Aldrich of Manhattan's Church of the Ascension. His remarks
were by way of foreword to an article "Flowers on...